
William Mason
William is the Director General of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. He has strong interests in Supervisory Technology, Digital Finance and Green Finance.
Prior to becoming a financial regulator, William worked in the UK Cabinet Office where he helped write "Regulation - Less is More, a report to the Prime Minister". His other publications include: "Freedom for Public Services; "The Costs of Regulation" and "PRISM Explained - Implementing Risk Based Supervision". Earlier in his career, William worked for an international energy firm on three continents, and a US strategy house. He also served as a volunteer police officer in London, and as a school governor in a deprived neighbourhood. William has held public office as a parish and district councillor.
From 2006 to 2010, William supervised large insurers and investment firms at the UK FSA where he was also asked to lead an emergency credit institutions team during the Global Financial Crisis. In 2010, he moved to become Head of Risk at the Central Bank of Ireland where he reinvented Irish financial services supervisory processes as the country recovered from the Euro crisis. He subsequently played an influential role in the operational design of the European Central Bank's banking union; it adopted the software that he had designed to implement its supervisory operating model.